Ambassador Henry “Hank” A. Crumpton is the President of the Crumpton Group (CG), providing advisory services for companies investing in international markets. Allied with the law firm Akin Gump and the communications company Public Strategies, CG brings a holistic approach to managing global risk and opportunity. Ambassador Crumpton speaks publicly about international security, political issues, and leadership. He is on the Advisory Board of DC Capital Partners, a private equity fund. He is a director of Argan Inc. He is also a Distinguished Fellow at the EastWest Institute.
With the rank of Ambassador-at-Large, he was the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State from August 2005 until February 2007. Working directly for the Secretary of State, he developed, coordinated, and implemented U.S. counterterrorism policy.
Ambassador Crumpton joined the CIA in 1981 as a Clandestine Service operations officer. For most of his 24-year career he operated in the foreign field, including assignments as Chief of Station. In Washington, he served at the FBI as Deputy Chief of the International Terrorism Operations Section, 1998-1999. He was Deputy Chief (Operations) of CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, 1999-2001. He led CIA’s Afghanistan campaign, 2001-2002. Some of his achievements have been portrayed in the best-selling books Bush at War, American Soldier, First In, Jawbreaker, and At the Center of the Storm. He was Chief of the CIA’s National Resources Division, 2003-2005.
He received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of New Mexico and a Masters in International Public Policy, with honors, from Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He is a contributing author to Transforming U.S. Intelligence (2005). He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an honorary member of the OSS Society.
Ambassador Crumpton is the recipient of the Intelligence Commendation Medal; the George H.W. Bush Award for excellence in counterterrorism; the Sherman Kent Award, in recognition of an outstanding contribution to the literature of intelligence; the Donovan Award; and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA’s highest award for achievement.
